[Asterisk-Users] Dialplan mapping for multiple outbound providers to determine best rates

[Darren Wiebe]

Good day,

I would recommend using an LCR engine to do this.  There is at least one 
listed in the wiki.  I am also nearing completion of an lcr engine that 
integrates with ASTPP, asterisk billing software.  It will be easy to 
setup once I get it working. :-)

Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

gw at adcomcorp.com wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>Right now I have several providers.  Voipjet, Teliax, and more recently
>Broadvoice.
>
>Broadvoice gives me unlimited to europe, but what I want to do is
>determine the best way to setup a dialplan so for example, certain
>countries will go through the cheapest route.
>
>I am really only interested in Poland, Russia and Turkey. Poland is free
>on broadvoice, but not for cellular, which I may want to go through my
>pots line which has decent rates and good quality with an ld provider.
>
>My question is, with the dialplan, if you assign a number like 0114861.
>to terminate one provider, but do an include afterwards and include lets
>say, 011486135., will asterisk automatically route to the 011486135 or
>does it need to be specified in before the first include?
>
>Also, does anyone have any examples of how they route calls to the
>proper provider in extensions.conf, or must some extensive dialplan
>arrangements be assigned?
>
>The idea is simple, rather than having a huge extensions.conf with a lot
>of different exchanges, can asterisk determine the best route on its own
>based on includes, or must I have different lines in extensions.conf for
>asterisk to determine it?  The whole idea being, if broadvoice is down,
>I would want a backup, but not neccesarily specify 10 lines of scripting
>for each country code and area code.
>
>I would think this is an important thing for high volume usages to save
>money.  Basically, do any of the modules allow this in a simple manner,
>for example, where you can use a database to specify rates per call, and
>have asterisk decide the best route.
>
>This is a similar idea to LCR (least cost routing) on normal pbx
>systems.
>
>Any advice would be nice, since I'm sure those users who use asterisk
>for more commercial purposes have figured our a way to do this...
>
>Regards,
>Greg
>
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